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MACHINE FOR BOXING MATCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,568, dated August 26, 1902. Application filed March 30, 1901. Serial No. 53,658- (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS E. ELLIN- WOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Boxing Matches, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has a general relation to that class of boxes in which matches and like articles are packed in small quantities for convenience of sale and use, each of which boxes consists of an outer case, of pasteboard or like material, in form of a rectangular flat tube open at each end, and a drawer of like material and length open at the top and fitted to slide in said tube.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine and suitable mechanism for placing the match-drawers into the cases, progressively fed into suitable position for their reception, and to cause said cases and drawers to be successively brought into alinement to register and telescope and to finally discharge the filled boxes.

A further object is to render the machine readily adjustable to different sizes; and a final object is to provide means for quickly changing the speed of the machine as the nature of the service may require.

The machine is especially designed to be supplemented and auxiliary to a machine for making and delivering matches for which I was granted Letters Patent of the United States Nos. 443,624 and 443,623 on the 30th day of December, 1890.

To the attainment of the objects hereinbefore stated my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction, arrangement, and combination of mechanical parts hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference-numerals indicate like parts in the different figures, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my machine; Fig. 2, a plan, on a larger scale, of the front or left end; Fig. 3, a plan, on the same scale as Fig. 2, of the right end and forming with Fig. 2 a plan of the entire machine; Fig. 4, a section of Fig.

3 at the line X X; Fig. 5, an inverted plan of the upper or rear end of Fig. 3; Fig. 6, an elevation, enlarged, of the machine looking from the left of Fig. 1; Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10, details of certain parts of the machine partially shown in and on the same scale as Fig. 6; Fig. 11, an enlarged central vertical longitudinal section of the front part of Fig. 2; Fig. 12, an inverted plan of a part of the ma chine back of the part shown in Fig. 11; Fig. 13, a section of Fig. 12 at the line Y Y; Fig. 14, a vertical longitudinal section through a portion of the machine at the line Z Z of Fig. 15; Fig. 15, a section at the line W W of Fig. 14; Fig. 16, a plan of a portion of the machine below the table, showing the cams for alternately moving the case-feeders and for feeding forward the chains carrying the drawers; Fig. 17, an enlarged plan of the speed-changing gear; Fig. 18, an enlarged plan of the drawer-con rse,showing the spreaders and guard; and Fig. 19, a side elevation showing the match-delivery chute in relation to the drawer-carrier.

Referring to the figures, 1 is a table having a plane upper face and supported on pairs of legs 2 3, the pairs being united by an integral cross-bar. This table is horizontal for a distance slightly exceeding one-half its length from its front, which for the purpose of this specification is the left end of Fig. 1, whence it is inclined at an obtuse angle. The horizontal portion of the table from the front back for about two-thirds of its length is of even width, when it is abruptly reduced on each side, and thence extends in a narrow central portion. The central upper portion of the table has a longitudinal course or way formed by lateral angle-plates 5, secured by bolts or screws, as shown, which plates extend down the inclined portion on one side to the end and on the other a portion of the way, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, this termination being for the purpose of enabling the attendant to more readily place the drawers on the carrier, as hereinafter explained. The course or way, as just defined, has parallel channels or grooves 6 in the face, (seeFig. 4,) in which slide two endless sprocket-chains '7, that run at the front end of the machine on sprocket-wheels 8, one only of which is shown in Fig. 1]., and at the back end on table.

sprocket-wheels 9. The sprocket-wheels 9 are provided with a spring surrounding the shaft on which they are mounted, which presses against the wheels and against its journal to establish a frictional engagement to prevent overrunning if the machine is run at a high speed. These sprocket-chains are of peculiar construction, in that at regular intervals, as at every third link, as shown in the drawings, one link has a perpendicular finger 10, curved backward at the top of its advancing face, for a reason to be stated.

Beneath the back of the horizontal part of the table is journaled in a long bearing 11 a shaft 12, bearing at one end a gear-wheel 13, to which motion is communicated from another gear 80, driven by a belt and pulley on the shaft of gear 80 from any desired source of power. The gear 13 bears on one side toward the machine a disk 14, that revolves with it. The shaft 12 bears at its opposite end a grooved collar 15, inclosed by a loop in a lever 16, that is pivoted at one end in an arm 17, extending from the sleeve-bearing 11, and at the other end bears a spring-latch 18, arranged to engage a rack 19. The space between the disk 14 and collar 15 slightly exceeds the length of the sleeve-bearing 11, so that the shaft 12 has a slight lengthwise movement therein controlled by the lever 16. Centrally beneath and lengthwise of the horizontal portion of the table 1 is a horizontal'shaft 20, journaled at its back end in a bearing on the sleeve 11 and at the front in a T-shaped casting 21, having back flanges by which it is bolted to the under face of the (See Figs. 1 and 6.) The back end of this shaft is feathered, on which is fitted to slide the hub of a friction-wheel 22, which wheel is arranged to engage the face of the disk 14 when the shaft 12 is drawn outward, and thereby receive motion from said disk. The hub of the wheel 22 is grooved, and in the groove rests a fork on the end of a bar 23, which bar is pivoted on the end of a crankarm 24 on shaft 25, journaled in one of the legs 3 and in a cross-arm between the legs under the machine, (indicated as a bearing only in Fig. 17.) On the front end of the shaft 25 is a lever 26, bearinga spring-pressed pawl 27, arranged to engage a curved rack 28, attached to the table. By this arrangement the wheel 22 may be moved toward and. from the center of the disk 14 to diminish or increase the speed of the shaft 20. On the front end of the shaft 20 is a cam 29, (shown in Fig. 6 and in outline in Fig. 7,) that alternately engages rollers on the inner face of a segmental gear 30. The upper horizontal part of the T-shaped casting 21 and which for greater certainty is numbered 31 is accurately planed with angular grooves at the top and bottom, forming a dovetailed guide on which is fitted av reciprocating slide 32.

This slide has a front depending apron, the lower edge of which is provided with gearteeth, forming a rack 33, in which the segmental gear meshes to reciprocate the slide. This slide bears a blade 34, that overhangs an d moves transversely across the table 1 in the space in front of the slots through which the chains 7 descend to pass around the sprocket-wheel 8 and close to the surface of said table. Near each end of the space on the table 1 just referred to are openings 35 (see Figs. 2, 14, and 16) to permit the escape of the closed boxes, immediately back of which are hoppers 36, each consisting of two oppositely-disposed side plates with their edges inturned to form flanges, but which flanges terminate at a distance above the table slightly exceeding the thickness of one of the box-cases to be filled to permit such cases to escape singly, as hereinafter detailed. Attached to the front lower faces of these hoppers are adjustable plates 75, by which the size of the openings for the escape of the cases may be adapted to different sizes of boxes. Attached to the back lower edge of such hoppers are a series of fingers 37, of wire or narrow metallic strips, that extend down and thence under and nearly across the hoppers toward the front, sloping slightly toward the front, and a short distance above the table to hold the cases suspended in the hopper until singly pushed out by devices to be described. Directly back of each hopper 36 is a shallow channel 38 in the upper face of the table, along one side of the center of which and toward the center of the table is a slot 39. Fitted to slide in each channel 38 is a plate 40, beveled at the front to an edge, as shown in Fig. 14, and having a series of fingers 41 projecting in front of its beveled face. This plate bears on its upper face two narrow side blocks 42 and two intermediate inner blocks 43, severally separated from each other by spaces to permit the fingers 37 to pass between them. The blocks 42 43 are simply strips of metal fastened to the plate 40, bent at right angles at the upper corners, and open at the sides, as appears in Fig. 14. From each plate 40 a rod 44, Fig. 14, extends down through one of the slots 39 and terminates below the table in a flattened head, having a central opening for a pin or bolt, to which head is pivotally attached one end of a connecting-rod 45. These connecting-rods are made in two halves, with their adjacent ends screw threaded with threads of opposite pitch and united by a tubular nut 46, whereby they are made longitudinally adjustable. The opposite ends of these connecting-rods are journaled on wristpins on crank-arms 47 on the ends of a rockshaft 48, fitted in a long bearing 49, mounted on a bracket 50, secured to a cross-bar between the legs 3. (See Figs. 1. and 16.)

The crank-arms 47 bear pairs of frictionrollers 51, between which runs the edge of a cam 52 on the shaft 20. This cam is so constructed that in one half of its revolution the connecting-rods will remain motionless at their full forward stroke, and in the other half of the revolution they will be drawn back and returned, the object of these movements being to hold a case pushed out from the hoppers until it can be acted on by other mechanism and then to return and force another case out.

On the shaft 20 is secured cam 53, both halves having the same curve-that is, each half curves to the front and back at each halfturn, as shown in Figs. 1 and 16and to support the rim a cross bar or brace 54 extends across between the extreme curves in each direction, constituting spokes. The office of the cam 53 is to intermittingly feed forward the chains that carry the drawers in the following manner:

Centrally beneath the table are fixed parallel guides 55, in which slides a frame 56, constantly forced backward by a spring 57, on which frame are like parallel springs 58, that have upward-turned ends having faces beveled toward the back of the machine and slightly hollowed back in front to present points to engage the chains 7. On the back of this frame 56 is a roller 59, that bears against the cam 53, by which means the frame is moved forward a definite distance at each half-revolution of the cam. These parts are so adjusted as tocarry forward and deliver one drawer in the path of the blade 34immediately at the end of the movement of said blade in either direction.

Freely mounted to slide on the dovetailed guide 31 and located at opposite ends thereof are slides 60, having blades 61, that rest in the path of the slide 32, (shown in front andend elevation and in section at the line V V in Figs. 8, 9, 10, respectively) and hereinafter for convenience called abutment-blocks. On each block is a perforated boss in which is freely fitted a rod 62, having a nut at each end, thereby making the distance between the blocks adjustable. This distance is such that one blade 61 will be in vertical alinement with the outer edge of the opening in the table in front of the hopper on that side, while the opposite blade will be partially over the opposite opening at the end of each stroke. In each block 60, toward the center of the machine, is a recess having above and below it cars 63, between which is pivotally mounted an outwardly springpressed dog 64, arranged to yield to permit the blocks to slide inward toward the center of the machine, but to engage the face of the dovetailed guide and hold the blocks against being pushed outward until the free end of drawers.

functions as follows: One of the plates 40 will be pushed forward under its corresponding hopper, and its blocks 43 will push one of the cases forward from the hopper and off from the fingers 37, which case will then rest on the fingers 41 of the plate and under fingers 73, attached to the head 31, and be carried over one of the openings in the table and in the path of the blade 34 on the slide 32,iwhere it will rest with one end against the blade 61 of the abutment-block at that end of the path of the slide. At the time that the empty case mentioned above is thrust out on the fingers 41 of the plate and in front'of the blade 61 of the abutment-block the reciprocating slide 32 will be traveling away from that side of the machine and will continue its sliding motion until the end of its stroke. In this motion the tappet 65 at the advancing end of the slide 32 will encounter the spring-pressed dog 64 and release it from engagement and the continuation of the motion of the slide 32, encountering the abutment-block 60, (as the tappet will enter wholly within the space between the cars 63,) and the abutment-block 60 thus encountered will be forced outward, thereby drawing with it the transverse rod 62 and the abutmentblock 60 at the side of the machine where the empty case describedabove has been placed on the fingers 4.1, and as this last-mentioned abutment-block is drawn toward the center by the limitation of the length of the cross rod 62 it presses toward the center the-empty case upon the spreaders now to be described. These devices (shown in Fig. 2 and enlarged in Fig. 18) consist of plates 68, wide at their outer ends and narrow at their inner ends, one pair of which are secured to angle-plates 69, which form a continuation ofand terminals for the angle-plates 5, hereinbefore de-' scribed. Another and like pair of plates are secured directly opposite the former pair in the end of the case and also to guide the Substantially simuldrawer in entering it. taneously with this movement of the case toward the center a drawer 67 is delivered on the top of the table in substantial alin'ement with the case in the following mannerz As the links bearing the fingers 10 pass over the wheels 8 they will follow the contour of the wheels and rock downward, as illustrated in Fig. 11, the effect of which is to throw the sition of the drawer and to prevent any rebound of the drawer as it is pressed forward I30. fingers l0 forward, and thus separate' tlio To further insure the accurate poby the fingers 10, I provide a rider, of sheet metal, 74, (shown in Fig. 11 and in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 18,) which overhangs the path of escape of the drawer and is regulated to press lightly on the drawer as it passes. This rider is bent transversely to form an olfset shoulder to engage the rear edge of the drawer I as it passes and prevent its backward movement, and to prevent its front rising as it is pushed forward a plate 70 is attached to the part 31 and projects over the table opposite ment the drawer is within the case the tappet in the advancing end of the slide 32 will engage and press back the dog 64, thus releasing the abutment-block and permit it to move back With the slide 32, with the com plete box between the blades 61 and 34, until it stands over one of the openings 35 on the fingers 41 of the plate 40. The pressure of the blade 34 toward the blade 61 is continued for a short time by the peculiar shape of the cam 29, which has at its greater diameter a circular outline with the center of the shaft as its center, as shown in Fig. 7, which imparts no motion to the segmental gear 30 during the time it is passing either of the friction-rollers thereon. During this interval of time the plate 40 on that side of the machine has moved back, drawing the fingers 41 from beneath the box, leaving the latter suspended by the pressure of the blades 34 and 61 toward each other. As the slide 32 commences its return stroke the blade 34 is drawn away from the blade 61, thus permitting the box to fall through the opening in the table into any suitable receptacle below.

The operations at both sides of the machine are identical and alternate with the movements of the machine, as just described.

The machine has been heretofore described with reference to the manner in which the filled drawers are placed in the cases and without describing any method of filling the drawers with matches. This may be done in the usual mannerby hand; but, as stated before, this machine is supplemental and auxiliary to another machine hereinbefore mentioned, and it is intended to feed matches from that machine into the drawers through the spout .71 (shown in Fig. 19) as these drawers are fed progressively forward. As the matches flow through this spout they will rapidly fill the drawers, the lower end of said spout being in a plane slightly above the tops of. the drawers while the drawers are being moved, and this will continue until the drawers are evenly filled.

To prevent the escape of matches from the spout after one drawer has been filled and before another is brought into position to receive them, a hanging door 72, Fig. 19, is pivpractically forms a regulator to prevent the overfilling of the drawers and to not only fill them evenly, but also to prevent the escape of matches between drawers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for boxing matches the combination with a supporting-table, an intermittingly-moving means to convey drawers forward on said table, independent separate means for successively feeding cases downwardly on said table on either side of said first-named means, means to feed forward said cases on said table into alinement with the most advanced of said drawers, and a transversely-reciprocating slide to force said drawers into the cases, substantially as shown and described. I

2. In a machine for boxing matches, the combination with a supporting-table, of a device forsuccessively feeding cases alternately on opposite sides of said table, a carrier to intermittingly convey drawers into alinement with said cases, a reciprocating slide to alternately force the drawers severally into the cases, and mechanism for causing said parts to perform their respective functions, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a machine for boxing matches, the combination with a supporting-table, of a device for successively feeding cases alternately on opposite sides of said table, a carrier to intermittingly convey drawers into alinement with said cases, a reciprocating slide to alternately force the drawers severally into the cases, and abutment-blocks to support said cases against the thrust of the drawers, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a machine for boxing matches, the combination with a supporting-table having a device for successively feeding cases alternately on opposite sides of said table, and a carrier to intermittingly deliver drawers into alinement with said cases, a reciprocating slide to alternately push said drawers severally into said cases, abutment-blocks to support said casesagainst the thrust of the drawers, of a locking device for holding said abutment-blocks to receive said thrust, and devices connected with said slide to release said locking device,to permit the abutment-blocks to move with the slide, substantially as shown and described.

5. A machine for boxing matches, consisting of means to progressively feed forward filled drawers of matches, means to alternately force them to either side of their path and into cases therefor, means for feeding into suitable position said cases, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a machine for boxing matches, the combination with a supporting-table, openings in said table to permit the filled boxes to escape by gravitation, means to sustain cases over said openings to receive drawers, means to feed cases singly onto said supports, transversely-operating means to force alternate drawers into said cases and means to withdraw said supports from said cases when said drawers are within said cases, substantially as shown and described.

7. In a machine for boxing matches, the combination of devices to receive and pro gressively carry forward filled drawers of matches, means to carry forward empty cases for said drawers in a parallel line and on each side of said drawers, and a transversely-re ciprocating plate to alternately force said drawers into alternate cases, substantially as shown and described.

8. In a machine for boxing matches, consisting of an endless traveling agent to conveydrawers filled with matches intermittingly forward, means as a reciprocating transversely-moving carriage to cause said drawers to pass sidewise to the line of said endless traveling agent,means situated on either side of said traveling agent to convey cases for said drawers forward in a direction parallel to said traveling agent and devices on said carriage to cause said drawers to enter said cases.

9. A machine for boxing matches, consisting of an endless intermittingly traveling agent to carry drawers filled with matches progressively forward, means for storing, holding and retaining cases for said drawers, independent means for feeding forward cases singly from said sources of supply alternately, and means as a transversely-reciprocating carriage for forcing said drawers alternately in either direction into said cases, substantially as shown and described.

10. A machine for boxing matches consisting of a definite travelingagent to carry forward filled drawers of matches, mechanism as hoppers for holding supplies of cases for said drawers,independent,but definitely-actuated mechanism for removing cases, singly and alternately from eachhopper, and means for causing said drawers to enter their respective cases, substantially as shown and described.

11. A machine for boxing matches consisting of a table, traveling means for feeding forward the drawers with a step-by-step motion, suitable means as hoppers arranged to hold supplies of cases therefor, means as reciprocating sliding blocks to remove cases singly from said hoppers and carry said cases forward into alinement with the most advanced of said drawers, and a reciprocating carriage moving transversely to the line of said advancing drawers to insert alternating drawers in said cases, substantially as shown and described.

12. A machine for boxing matches consisting of a definite traveling agent to carry forward filled drawers of matches, mechanism as hoppers for holding supplies of cases for said drawers,independent,but definitely-actuated mechanism for removing cases singly and alternately from each hopper, a shaft mounted in said machine, a double cam mounted thereon, mechanism as a sliding frame provided with spring-dogs to engage said agent and move it a definite distance arranged to be actuated by said cam, and means for causing said drawers to enter their respective cases, substantially as shown and described.

13. A machine forboxing matches consisting of a definite traveling agent to carry forward filled drawers of matches, mechanism as hoppers for holding supplies of cases for said drawers, means as projecting fingers for retaining temporarily said cases in said hoppers, independent but definitely-actuated mechanism for removing cases singly and alternately from each hopper consisting of divided blocks adapted to pass said fingers sliding in said machine, a shaft mounted therein, a double cam mounted on said shaft, a pair of rocking arms actuated by said cam alternately to reciprocate said blocks, and means for causing said drawers to enter their respective cases, substantially as shown and described.

14:. In a machine for boxing matches, the combination of a supporting-table provided with openings for the escape of filled boxes of matches, a definite traveling agent to carry forward said filled boxes of matches, mechanism as hoppers for holding supplies of cases for said drawers, independent but definitelyactuated mechanism for removing cases singly and alternately from each hopper, means as projecting fingers to retain said cases in said hoppers temporarily, divided sliding blocks to clear said projecting fingers and having projecting fingers thereon to receive the cases as they descend and retain them over the openings in said table, means to reciprocate said blocks alternately, and transversely-reciprocating means for causing said drawers to enter their respective cases, substantially as shown and described.

15. A machine for boxing matches consist- .ing of an endless traveling agent arranged to move at definite times and for definite spaces to cause drawers to feed forward singly, suitable means for storing, holding and retaining cases therefor consisting of two hoppers mounted in said machine provided with depending fingers to receive the lowest case in said hoppers, separate means for feeding forward cases singly from said sources of supply alternately and, means as a reciprocating carriage for forcing said drawers into said cases, substantially as shown and described.

16. A machine for boxing matches consisting of an endless traveling agent arranged to move at definite times and for definite spaces to cause drawers to feed forward singly, suitable means for storing, holding and retaining cases therefor, consisting of two hoppers mounted in said machine provided with crossbars to prevent the escape of more than one case at a time, separate means for feeding forward cases singly from said sources of supply alternately and means as a reciprocating carriage for forcing said drawers into said cases, substantially as shown and described.

17. In a machine for boxing matches, the combination with a table having openings to permit the filled boxes to escape by gravitation, provided with movable supports to sustain cases to receive drawers, mechanism to feed cases singly onto said supports, coacting mechanism to force said drawers into said cases, means as a series of fingers resting temporarily above the openings in said table to hold said cases securely while said drawers are inserted in said cases, means to withdraw said supports when said drawers are completely within said cases, and means as slightly-reciprocating abutment-blocks to atford a stop to said cases during the insertion of said drawers, substantially as shown and described.

18. A machine for boxing matches consisting of a table, a traveling means for feeding forward the drawers with a step-by-step motion, suitable means as hoppers arranged to hold supplies of cases therefor, means as reciprocating sliding blocks to remove cases singly from said hoppers and carry said cases forward into alinement with the most advanced of said drawers, a shaft mounted in said machine hearing at one end a cam, a segmental gear mounted in said machine, a pair of rollers mounted in said gear, and adapted to be actuated by said cam, a reciprocating carriage operated by said gear, a projecting blade carried by said carriage arranged to force said drawers into said cases, substantially as shown and described.

19. A machine for boxing matches consisting of a table, a traveling means for feeding forward the drawers with a step-by-step motion, suitable means as. hoppers arranged to hold supplies of cases therefor, means as reciprocating sliding blocks to remove cases singly from said hoppers and carry said cases forward into alinement with the most adcombination with a supporting-table of a de- I vice for successively feeding cases alternately on opposite sides of said table, a carrier to intermittingly convey drawers into alinement with said cases, and a reciprocating slide to alternately force the drawers severally into the cases, and abutment-blocks to support said cases against the thrust of the drawers, said abutment-blocks arranged to move in unison in either direction to force the case on one side inward and to carry, with the assistance of the reciprocating slide the case on the opposite side with its drawers outward over an opening in said table, substantially as shown and described.

21. In a machine for boxing matches, the combination with a supporting-table of a device for successively feeding cases alternately on opposite sides of said table, a carrier to intermittingly convey drawers into alinement with said cases, a reciprocating slide to alternately force the drawers severally into cases, and abutment-blocks to support said cases against the thrust of the drawers, said abutment-blocks arranged to simultaneously move in the same direction and arranged on one side to draw the case inward upon suitable guides for directing the entrance of said drawers and on the other side to release the case on that side with its drawer from said guides and convey it over a suitable opening in said table, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUSTUS E. ELLINWOOD.

In presence of- O. P. HUMPHREY, O. E. HUMPHREY. 

